The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

FIFTY BEEvEs and 100 lambs were roasted and
eaten at the barbecue of the National Butchers
| Association at Chicago last week
ALBERT STooKEY, of Pulaski, Pa, although ~
years of age, recently planted four and seven
! eightls acres of ground with one pair Of horses
III two days.
\ DROVE OF HOGS at Rockton H., attacked a
little son of Farmer Truman, and would have
| devoured him if the father and others had not
come to his aid.
GEORGE WEAVER, Of Astoria H., struck an
old fox with a bullet so hard that it dropped the
rabbit it was carrying and both Hoped out of
sight before George could load again.
A VERMONT BOY learned TO make cider brandy
in his mothers teapot from the information
concerning the physiological effects OF alcohol
contained in one of his obligatory textbooks.
By order of the supervisors the historic Sand
Lot in San Francisco is to be planted in peace
ful clover, Kearney, the terror now keeps an
Intelligence Office for cooks and washerwomen
MANY American ladies in London are said to
be unable to find ready made shoes there small
enough to fit them, the average of the American
being greatly below the average English foot in
size.
A COMMITTEE of the Connecticut Legislature
investigated certain charges against q member
and reported: while we believe every charge
to be true, we don't want the fact published to
VAN
ELI SPOTTED BEAR, a full-bood Sioux Indian,
has been drawn as juror for the next term Of
the Hughes County d. T) District Court It is
said he cannot understand or speak the English
language. The Judge will probably excuse him.
AN lad" notice in French provincial paper
in order to put end to certain injurious ru-
mors, NJ Intel desires TO inform the
public that he is not the VI. Intel of this city
who was recently sentenced to death and exc
cuted.'
Mr.. w. J. AsHLoCK caught a catfish the other
day in his net near Baylies' Island, Miss, which
weighed 1870 pounds. 1t was cut I'D into steaks
and sold in the market the next morning This
is one of the largest fish ever caught in that
vicinity.
THERE was heavy fall of black rain on the
Welsh coast lately. The showers had the effect
of making the grass and the plowed fields quite
dark and black in places. The most plausible
theory for the phenomenon is that the showers
came from the peat boys in the South of Ireland.
THE Sacramento Record Union reports that
c, II. Orr, prominent young lawyer of South
Carolina, is in Marysvle, Cal, as a representa-
tive of a colony of South Carolina people, hay
ing from 800 to $4,000 EACH and comprising
many families, who have resolved to remove TO
California and have commissioned Mr.. Orr TO
locate them.
AN amusing incident occurred recently in
London at Buffalo Bits show. Mr. Justice
Lopez was strolling about the Indian village and
fell IN with papoose, aged years, who
promptly laSsoed him round the neck with
rope and refused to let him go. Loud was the
laughter of all who beheld the Judge bound by
an Indian baby
THERE is a man in New York who owes his life
to his taste for beer. He was employed in razing
the old building near Tompkins market the one
which came down of itself Monday afternoon,
and becoming scared, or dry, or BOTH said: I'm
is IN ia Loft no bt,ilI linz
went across the way to get drink of beer and
the collapse came.
IT is noticed as rather curious coincidence
that during the present month bedroom in a
gentleman residence on Franklin street, Balti
more, has been occupied SUCCESSFULLY by three
young ladies' two of whom were grand-nieces
in the third generation, respectively of George
| Washington and John Marshall, and the third a
direct descendant in the same degree of Thomas
Jefferson.
LAST SUNDAY Stacy Clock found bald eagles
nest in tall oak upon the lake shore near
Woodchuck creek, Michigan, and resolved to
capture the young ones. II was about eighty
feet to the nest, but he Skinned up there and
| got three young birds about weeks old. They
| are but partly covered with feathers, yet Mr..
| Clock says they measure nearly six feet across
| the wings.
THE growth of water-works in this country in
| the last five years is something phenomenal OBJ
serves. Public Opinion Up to the year 1880
| the total number of water works in cities and
| towns in the United States was 556; from
| that time to the end of 1886 there were 623 new
| works built and put in operation, being sixty
seven in excess of all built previously and they
| are being built this year faster than ever.
In Japan stairways are almost unknown
| Hence, when japanese come to this country and
| are lodged in boarding houses their apartments
are generally in the third or fourth story. To
reach their rooms they are compelled at first to
| 60 up very cautiously and with the aid of the
| balustrade. Some do not even hesitate to go up
cat-faShiOn on all fours. from step to step The
trouble is that they have not learned to balance
| the body SO as to ascend and descend as we do
| A LECTURER, who was getting along eloquently
| on the subject Of Mental Liberty" at Akiah
Cal, some nights ago, suddenly had his remarks
interrupted by one of his listeners, who, rising,
| denounced the speaker and threw a lighted
| lamp at his head The lamp struck the chan
| deler, broke it, put out the gas and missing
the head OF the lecturer, passed through win
dow and exploded in the yard below There
was much excitement and miraculous escape
| of the audience from injury
| STRANGE story comes from Krasna, in
Russia A man named Leslie, descendant of an
| Englishman, the family of the Lords Leslie who
settled in Russia in the sixteenth century, lately
| received notice that the elder branch of the
family bad become extinct, and that he was the
heir to fortune of t10, coo, 900 and a peerage
Mr.. Leslie does not desire to sit in the House of
| Lords, and would prefer to realize the fortune
and continue to reside in Russia. English law
yers are taking steps to obtain authorization to
| sell the property.
! HARVEY WHITEHEAD AND FRANK FULLMER of
| Williamsport, Pa, were trout fishing on a creek
in Sullivan county. They saw mink come out
| of the water on the opposite side of the stream
| just below them. 1t had big trout in its
mouth. When it drew itself out on the shore
the fisherman began shouting at it, This fright
ened the mink and it dropped the trout and dis
appeared. The fishermen secured the fish IL
was still alive and uninjured by the minks
teeth. 1t was twenty inches long and weighed
two and haltpounds.
Young women with a fancy for novel writing
are warned by an English court case in which
it came out that Lady Constance Howard,
daughter of the Earl of Winchisea, has written
three novels-"Mated With Clown, " ''Mollie
Darling" and only a Village Maiden'-and
by her own confession. has made only 600 ont
of them, or something less than 45s q volume
The very titles, one would imagine. should be
worth more than that. Mated With a Clown
is good, and "Mollie Darling is an inspiration
Miss Broughton might envy.
On. TALMAGE says: II once occupied the novel
position Of sitting in pew in my own church
listening to minister preaching to my own con.
gregaticn one of my own sermons. No. not
from notes. It had been memorized and don't
imagine that the brother knew whose sermon
he was repeating. Sermons go the rounds some.